New study throws light on the sex lives of gay men over 70
study has shown that older gay men tend to enjoy sex with more partners than their straight peers.The study was prompted by last year’s mpox outbreak (formerly known as monkeypox).
Researchers in the UK wanted to find out how our sex lives change so that they could better model how a virus, such as mpox, might spread.
The most common route of transmission for last year’s outbreak in the UK and US was gay sexual encounters.Lead researcher Dr Julii Brainard, from the University of East Anglia’s Norwich Medical School, said: “Before this study, many models about sexually transmitted diseases assumed that everyone over a certain age — say 40 or 65 — stopped being sexually active, or at least stopped having multiple partners.“Or there might be an assumption that young people have the most sex.
But the answer is more nuanced, and it partly depends on people’s sexuality.”The study, published this week in PLOS ONE quizzed 5,000 people.
